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Political Parties Flashcards

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political parties

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organized group that attempts to control the government by electing its members to office

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benefit seekers

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interest groups

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office seekers

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political parties

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How much does it cost to run for the House of Representatives

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1 million

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How much does it cost to run for senate

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several million

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How much does it cost to run for the president?

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approx. 1 billion

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Getting Out the Vote

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  • parties play a role in registering voters and persuading people to vote
  • GOTV- many organizations go door-to-door, use social media, flyers, live phone calls to get people to go vote or vote for a particular candidate
  • parties offer a recognizable brand
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majority party

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party that holds the majority seat in the senate or house

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party activists

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strong identifiers who not only vote, but also volunteer time and energy to party affairs

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federalists and democratic-republicans

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  • (1776-1812)
  • first party system
  • Federalists
  • Washington, Hamilton
  • Northeasterners, manufacturing and commercial interests
  • Democratic-Republicans
  • Jefferson, Madison
  • Southerners, Agrarian interests

Founders thought these parties would help create stable voting blocs within Congress around cohesive party agendas

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Democrats and Whigs

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  • (1830-1860)
  • second party system
  • Democrats: Jackson, Van Buren
  • stronger in the south and west
  • Opposed national bank and tariffs
  • Whigs: Harrison
  • stronger in the northeast among mercantile groups
  • supported national bank, tariffs and internal improvements
  • conflicts over slavery caused the party to end
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Republicans and Democrats

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  • (1860-1896)
  • third party system
  • Republicans: appealed to recently freed black voters, the north, and businesses
  • Democrats: south and the working class
  • white southern democrats disenfranchized black voters. resulted in an even competition between parties
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Republicans and Democrats pt 2

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  • (1896-1932)
  • fourth party system
  • Republicans: McKinley, Hoover
  • strong in the Northeast and the Midwest
  • National power and business interests
  • Democrats: Bryan
  • strong in the south and the west
  • rural, minority party with a populist bent
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New Deal Coalition

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  • (1932-1968)
  • fifth party system
  • Democrats: FDR, Johnson
  • Solid South, plus black people, union members, Catholics, and Jews
  • Republicans: New England and the Midwest
  • Business interests, protestants
  • americans blamed republicans for the Great depression, brought this system in motion
  • ended due to civil rights and the Vietnam War
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Democrats and Republicans pt. 3

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  • (1968-present)
  • sixth party system
  • Democrats:
  • southern whites left the party over civil rights
  • catholics and religous conservatives moved to the right
  • Republican Party is built on economic and social conservatives
  • Democrats: unionized workers and upper middle class professionals
  • both parties are more ideologically homogenous
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Why do third parties not usually last?

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often co-opted to some degree by the major parties

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3 reasons political parties form

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  1. the problem of facilitating collective action in the electoral process
  2. the challenging nature of collective policymaking
  3. the problems arising from political competition and ambition
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Coalitions

political parties

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  • parties are coalitions of organized groups
  • vary their interest on the party they support
  • tend to support a party but also bring an element of conflict
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Party Systems

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  • arrangement of parties that are important/relevant at the time
  • what issues are important
  • changes as the parties realign
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Parties in Government

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  • organize in support / opposition to governmental actions and policies
  • select leaders for house / senate and make committee assignments
  • politicians in the same party support one another’s legislation
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Parties in the Electorate

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  • voters identify with a political party that reflects their views and interests, after, identification persists
  • voters use parties as a shortcut to decide who to vote for
  • people develop strong attachments to a party and become party activists
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Parties as Institutions

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  • networks of politicians, activists, interest groups, donors, consultants, and voters
  • recruit candidates to run for offices, organize primaries and caucuses, and select a candidate for the general election
  • raise money and perform activites on behalf of their members in congress and state legislatures

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